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单词 muckering
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muckeringn.

Forms: Scottish pre-1700 mukeryn.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mucker v.1, -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < mucker v.1 + -ing suffix1.
Obsolete. rare.
Hoarding of money, miserliness.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > miserliness
chincheryc1405
muckeringc1430
gnedeshipc1480
wretchedness1488
miserableness1522
misery1531
snudging1553
sordidity1584
snudgery1599
miserliness1645
nabalism1853
miserhood1867
miserdom1887
the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > hoarding
muckeringc1430
hoarding1595
hiving1844
squirrelling1960
c1430 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1844) I. 35/2 Gif ony suilke..hantys to cum on nycht because of mukeryn [L. causa lucri vel mali ingenii] and taveryns his fysche in house by nycht the quhilk he sulde sell on the day [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

muckeringadj.

Brit. /ˈmʌk(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈməkərɪŋ/
Forms: 1500s (1800s– English regional) muckering, 1800s– muckeren (English regional), 1800s– muckerin (English regional), 1800s– muckerin' (English regional); also Scottish (in sense 1) pre-1700 mokrand, pre-1700 mukerand, pre-1700 mukrand.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mucker v.1, -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < mucker v.1 + -ing suffix2. Compare earlier muckering n.In later use probably influenced by muck n.1
Now English regional.
1. Mean, miserly; grudging, petty, selfish.In later use probably with admixture of sense 2 (cf. quot. a1903).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > supply > storage > [adjective]
muckeringa1525
hoardinga1616
magazininga1763
the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [adjective] > miserly
gnedy?c1225
miserable1484
misera1500
muckeringa1525
pinchpence1540
snudging1553
pinchpenny1582
miserly1593
mising1595
scraping1597
chuff-penny1603
wretched1652
nabalitic1653
skinflint1737
nippit1808
Scrooge-like1976
a1525 Thre Prestis of Peblis (Asloan) (1920) 20 Thai sell þar sonnis and aris for gold & gud Vnto ane mukrand carle for darest pryss.
1556 J. Olde tr. R. Gwalther Antichrist f. 182 For a muckering vile aduantage sake.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 37 A muckeren old fellow.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Muckering adj., hoarding, as a miser.
a1903 E. Smith MS Coll. Warwicks. Words in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 188/2 Muckeren [miserly, covetous], only used of a miser whose penurious habits led him to live in a condition of a mucker—that is, with no-one to keep his house in order or tidy.
2. English regional (west midlands). Dirty, slovenly.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective]
uncleaneOE
horyc1000
foulOE
fennilicha1225
sutya1225
mixc1225
blackc1300
solwyc1325
bawdy1377
filthyc1384
nastyc1390
sowlyc1400
soryc1440
uncleanly1447
mossyc1450
dungyc1494
bedirted1528
slubberly?1529
filthish1530
deturpate?1533
mucky1538
stercorous1542
bluterc1550
dungish?1550
puddly1559
drumly1563
suddle1568
parbruilyiedc1586
sluttered1589
dirty1600
ordurous?1606
immund1621
turpie1633
sterquilinious1647
bruckled1648
cloacal1656
foede1657
stercorose1727
murky1755
sterquilinian1772
cloacinean1814
floy1820
poucey1829
stoachy1836
mullocky1839
muckering1841
sewery1851
dutty1853
dauby1855
cloacean1859
mucky1863
bilgy1878
cloacaline1879
muck-heapy1881
cloacinal1887
schmutzig1911
grufty1922
scabrous1939
mawkit1962
feechie1975
1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua Gloss. 511 He lived always in a very muckering way.
1882 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. (at cited word) I like plenty o' clier waiter throwed down the dairy; none o' yore muckerin' work.
1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Muckerin wees [i.e. ways].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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